Burncd & 700MB rw/cd

[Al Plant]

FBSD1 wrote:
> Been using burncd since Freebsd 4.0 with 650MB rw/cd's just fine. My local
> computer store had a sale on 700MB rw/cd's and I picked up a few. Burncd
> gives msg (Failure - read_big illegal request) on these 700MB rw/cd's. The
> Freebsd 7.0 man burncd has no info on large sized rw/cd's?
> 
> Does burncd need a programming update to handle these newer larger sized
> rw/cd's?
> 
> What other (built in with the release) program can be used to burn 700 MB
> rw/cd's?
> 
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Aloha,


HEre is what we did about a month ago when a similar issue came up wit a 
couple of us and CDR's.



Julien Cigar wrote:
 > Same problems for me with atapi CD/DVD drives (READ_BIG timeouts,
 > etc) .. it works a bit better when dma is turned off, but then
 > performances are very poor.
 >
 > On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 14:17 -1000, Al Plant wrote:
 >> N.J. Thomas wrote:
 >>> * "Snorre D. ?verb?" <snorre at overbo.no> [2008-08-07 15:29:11+0000]:
 >>>> When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear
 >>>> on the screen.
 >>>>
 >>>> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=0055347
 >>>> ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=0
 >>>> etc
 >>> I got the same exact errors trying to install 7.0-RELEASE on two
 >>> different Dell boxes. One was 4 years old, the other was brand new (3
 >>> months ago).
 >>>
 >>> Never was able to fix the problem. For the older one, I plugged in an
 >>> external DVD drive and installed via that. For the other one, I
 >>> installed via a mini-install disk, and then did a minimal network
 >>> install.
 >>>
 >>> For the record, they both had SATA drives and the disks worked (and
 >>> still work) fine after the OS was installed. It was just copying the
 >>> base system off the CD that was causing errors.
 >>>
 >>> Thomas
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 >>   Aloha,
 >>
 >> I am getting the same errors as you guys with an intermittient 
BIG_read one occasionally. I've tried to install FreeeBSD CURRENT 8 and 
7 release.
 >>
 >> This is on a no name box with a bio board and 1100 cpu. I've had 
this on other boxes too and load IDE drives on a box that works with 
them and then put them in the box with errors and they work just fine.
 >>
 >> Every thing gets recognized normally at  install time, but the size 
of the IDE drive a Fujutsu 20 gig. shows twice what it should be every time.
 >>
 >> Dont know if this has anything to do with it, except if you change 
the size in installer it wont load anything.
 >>
 >> Maybe one of the top level gurus on the list can help.
 >>
 >>
 >>
Aloha,

The suggestion to put the folloeing worked to clear my DMA error.

In: /boot/loader
Put: hw.ata.ata_dma=0 #disable IDE DMA

This allowed an uninterrupted boot.


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